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using wikipadia
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sajida44
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using wikipadia
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is it OK if I use definitions from Wikipedia in my worksheets (definitions of natural phenomenon ) ????????
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3 Mar 2014
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FrauSue
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Yes, just give the source at the end of the citation. See below.
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3 Mar 2014
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ELOJOLIE274
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yes but only if you add your own exercise - you cannot simply upload a list of definitions from wikipedia. for example: matching the natural phenomenon to its definition, a right-or-wrong exercise, a fill-in-the-blanks exercise... see what I mean?
and of course FrauSue is right, you need to add the source of your information :)
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3 Mar 2014
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Sonn
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You cannot use the texts from Wikipedia here because they are licensed under Creative Commons Share Alike and here we don �t have such a license, we have a copyright license.
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3 Mar 2014
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ELOJOLIE274
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according to wikipedia �s terms of use: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
"You are free to:
- Read and Print our articles and other media free of charge.
- Share and Reuse our articles and other media under free and open licenses."
"7. Licensing of Content
To grow the commons of free knowledge and free culture, all users
contributing to the Projects are required to grant broad permissions to
the general public to re-distribute and re-use their contributions
freely, so long as that use is properly attributed and the same freedom
to re-use and re-distribute is granted to any derivative works. In
keeping with our goal of providing free information to the widest
possible audience, we require that when necessary all submitted content
be licensed so that it is freely reusable by anyone who cares to access
it." since we have to add our own exercises and need to mention the source as being Wikipedia, IMHO we are totally free to use documents from Wikipedia - the documents from wikipedia are not copyrighted, the only part of our ws that is copyrighted is the exercise(s) we add.
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4 Mar 2014
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Sonn
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This article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane, is licensed under Creative Commons Share Alike. It means anyone can use it under this license ( Creative Commons Share Alike). The license we use here is quite different. CC does not mean PD and there are restrictions.
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4 Mar 2014
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ELOJOLIE274
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if I read properly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License
Creative Commons Deed
This is a human-readable summary of the full license below.
You are free:
- to Share�to copy, distribute and transmit the work, and
- to Remix�to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
- Attribution�You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work.)
- Share Alike�If you alter, transform, or build upon this work,
you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a
compatible license.
if we start being too strict about copyright rules we should remove all the texts from this website except for those which were written by one of us or those taken from texts whose copyright has expired... But in the spirit of giving authentic texts to our pupils that would diminish greatly the number or documents we could study with them...
As long as we acknowlege the fact that the text is not ours, and that we mention its source we should be fine since we do not actually sell our ws and make profit out of them...
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4 Mar 2014
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sajida44
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I read the definitions and write them in my way so i guess that will be fine
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4 Mar 2014
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